Uralchem-Uralkali Group has announced that its consignment of 34,000 tons of fertilisers for Kenya has reached the country’s port of Mombasa. The shipment, comprising potash, urea and NPKS, is currently being unloaded.
It is the Group’s second donation in a series of shipments of its fertilisers from the ports and warehouses in the European Union to developing countries that face food insecurity.
The previous humanitarian delivery leaving from an EU port comprised 20,000 tonnes of complex fertiliser and was officially handed over to Malawi in early March.
Both shipments were facilitated by the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP), which chartered vessels to transport the fertilisers. In turn, the Group covered the sea freight and other delivery costs.
Uralchem-Uralkali is committed to donating a total of approximately 300,000 tons of mineral fertilisers to developing nations to alleviate the ongoing unprecedented global food crisis, the Group said in a statement.
The contribution also supports efforts to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal #2 – “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”.
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